Overheard in D.C.: The Name Game
People's names can be pretty interesting: they can be traditional, they can have some deep meaning, or maybe they're just spelled a certain way to be different. Names can follow trends (how many Jaydens did you know 10 years ago?) or can fade away (Elmer or Agnes?) And there's all those funny names, like Richard Head. But sometimes, they're just terrible.
Overheard of the Week
Riding the Green line between Gallery Place and L'Enfant:
30-ish mother to her two children bouncing all over the place: "Perry Ellis and Elizabeth Claiborne! You two sit down and shut up right now!"
After the jump, cops, friends, and double entendres, sort of.
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Colombo is on the case
Friday morning at Judiciary Square:
Male MPD officer on cell phone: "What's this (name) look like?... Is he short?... Was he at your stripper party?"
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Have you even read the Bill of Rights?
In Dupont:
20-something woman on her cell phone: "I was so mad! I was like, what gives you the right to hit me in the face with a turkey?"
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Good thing it wasn't called Big Bones
On Georgia Ave. in Silver Spring:
Preppy guy walking towards Colesville Rd talking on phone:
"Hey, I'm passing Living Ruff.... yeah, I was so hoping for a friendly neighborhood S&M shop, too."
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The essence of friendship.
At Bruegger's near GWU:
Girl 1: "Her pants were too short for those shoes."
Girl 2: "Why are you still friends with her?"
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Think globally, complain locally
In a very small, family-run Vietnamese restaurant in Chinatown:
About 15 student environmentalists from the Powershift conference crowd into the restaurant.
Student: "What the hell is taking so long? This is supposed to be fast food!"
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Marion Barry?
Two 20-something women are riding the Orange line after midnight:
Woman 1: "I thought he was cute."
Woman 2: "Um. he was wearing a straw fedora...and Obama socks."
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That makes one of us
On the street outside the bars on Pennsylvania Ave in Capitol Hill:
One girl shouts to her two friends as they try to hail a cab: "I wanna hear some Creed! They speak to me about Jesus!"
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More like the most dangerous military force on Earth
Walking down Pennsylvania Ave to Georgetown:
Early 20s European female points to the Salvation Army building: "What is that, like, a cult?"
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